[Pydev-code] API call for the pydev debug server? Robustness

[Thomas J. <th...@sk...>]

Hi,

We're writing a plugin which provides some functionality for starting,
running and debugging Python code running in an external application
called 'Studio'.  Among other things, our plugin provides a button
'start debug trace of Studio' which runs pydevd.settrace() in Studio,
to connect back to the (running!) pydev debug server.

Currently, however, before pressing 'start debug trace of Studio' the 
user must
have pressed the button 'pydev:start pydev debug server' exactly once, 
otherwise
it will not work, nor will retrying  start pydev debug server + start 
debug trace.
(Nor does start+stop+start of pydev debug server). Once it has gone 
wrong in this way,
there appears to be no way to recover except restarting Eclipse.

Therefore we would like to robustify this: when pressing our 'start 
debug trace of Studio'
we would like our plugin also to activate pydev server if it has not 
already been done,
and generally help or at least inform/warn when things are are about to 
go wrong.
Are there any api calls for starting the pydev debug server, or probing 
its state?

Any help and hints with this would be greatly appreciated!
We are currently using pydev+extensions 1.4.4 , with eclipse 3.4.1.

Thanks in advance!
-- Thomas Johnsson, Jeppesen Systems, Göteborg, Sweden